Meeting Services

Create a Distinctive Conference at Our Northern California Hotel

Conference and meeting planners will discover a spectacular new setting for meetings and retreats at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay in Northern California. Our prestigious conference center facilities offer the perfect setting and space for any group. Complete with a signature spa and two golf courses, a dedicated Conference Concierge will help create and facilitate your meeting through execution.

Themed Events

Comprehensive business center with PC workstations and office supplies

High speed Internet access available in all function rooms

Photocopy, fax, mail, secretarial and shipping and receiving services

Video conferencing capabilities

Dedicated conference concierge to assist with every meeting need while on property

All That Glitters

A twinkling diamond light curtain transforms the Ballroom into a starry night. A 40-foot-wide, art-deco skyline backs the stage surrounded by boxwood hedges illuminated with miniature white lights. An elegant five-course meal awaits your guests. Fine wine and champagne will complement the special selection that our Executive Chef and you create to set the mood for this celebratory evening. Silver, black and white balloons will spill on to the dance floor at the close of the evening to ensure a memorable farewell and a night to remember.

Speak Easy

Return to the era of Prohibition on the California coast, when Rumrunners and the like took to the local hidden coves and beaches of Half Moon Bay, providing the spirits that kept San Francisco soaring during these dry years. Guests will walk through a back-of-the-house alley with street lamps glowing and "unsavory characters" watching their every move as they seek their favorite watering hole. Upon entering the Cotton Club, they will be entertained by music and dancing from a bygone era, harkening back to a long ago time and place on the historic California coast.

Mavericks on the Coast

This welcome reception demonstrates all the glories of Half Moon Bay, the Northern California coast and the world famous surf spot-Mavericks. Learn about the unbelievable world of big wave surfing with photos and stories of the "Men who ride Mountains." An authentic surf shack serves as one of many food stations with surfboards, local flowers and palm trees. Guests will savor the freshest local seafood complemented by produce from the Northern California coast.

Taste of Northern California

Taste the crème de le crème of Northern California’s world-class culinary offerings. Goat cheese from Pescadero, the freshest lamb from Sonoma County, artichokes from the Monterrey Peninsula and a bountiful seafood buffet caught locally from Pillar Point Harbor – just to name a few. And of course, a large selection of Napa, Sonoma and Central Coast California wines will complement every menu. To set the mood, backdrops of the sea and the rugged Northern California coast set the mood for this culinary extravaganza.

VolunTeaming

VolunTeaming is now offered under The Ritz-Carlton social responsibility program, Community Footprints. Transcending traditional group activities, VolunTeaming combines teambuilding with volunteer activities that create lasting memories for the participants. Recognizing that many groups want their teambuilding time to make a meaningful contribution, these programs enable guests to be a force for good and feel personally connected to the place that they visit.

The Playhouse Challenge

Build your team by imagining, designing, and building playhouses for shelters, hospitals, schools and other organizations. Work on the foundational values of your company while building the foundational structure of these one-of-a-kind treasures.

Helping Hands™/Build-a-Hand™

Build your team while building prosthetic hands for amputees in developing countries who can’t afford prosthetic devices. Companies have built close to 10,000 hands delivered to more than sixty countries. Available in Helping Hands™ ‘Live’ –with Odyssey Teams expert facilitation and the Build-a-Hand teambuilding kit™.

Life Cycles

Build your team while building bicycles for children. More than 60,000 employees of the world’s largest organizations have built more than 13,000 bikes for children since the beginning of Life-Cycles in 2000. Through the act of creating something valuable and passing it on, your team will experience firsthand the value of collaboration and teamwork.

Audio-Visual Services

Comprehensive, in-house presentation and audio/visual services.

Whether you are planning an intimate board meeting or an elaborate production, you can count on our experienced team to provide a full range of capabilities to help deliver your message through light, sound, video and data projection. The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay has an in-house partnership with PSAV.

Please contact a Sales Manager for more information at (650) 712-7000.

Other Meeting Services

Comprehensive business center with PC workstations and office supplies

High speed Internet access available in all function rooms

Photocopy, fax, mail, secretarial and shipping and receiving services

Video conferencing capabilities

Dedicated conference concierge to assist with every meeting need while on property

Audio/visual specialists on property

Entertainment specialists available

Environmental Responsibility

Meetings and events at The Ritz-Carlton are carefully designed to create an unparalleled guest experience while protecting our natural resources. Together with our property-based Ritz-Carlton Environmental Action Conservation Teams (REACT) you and your attendees can support our efforts to reduce our environmental imprint and make a meaningful difference. Within our hotels, we reduce energy and water usage, offer a linen and terry reuse program, and utilize environmentally preferable cleaning products. Our meeting venues support a sustainable future by offering recycled paper products and pens, water service options, organic and local food and sustainable seafood options.